With the Library Treasures sessions, artists and publishers present the books they love and inspired them to a small group of people in order to create a unique encounter and encourage exchanges based on books, loaned by the FOMU library in Antwerp for some of them.

Encounter with photographer Gaël Turine (BE) and graphic designer Chiqui Garcia (SP/BE) around Turine’s last book En bas la ville made of photographs from Port au Prince revealing chaos and poetry. Images and texts work together in a leporello book that gives a unique feeling and carries various narratives showing a singular experience in this fragile and fascinating country. The photographer and the graphic designer will talk about the making of the book and also about their inspirations and influences by sharing some books with the public.

Gaël Turine is lecturer in Photojournalism at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and gives documentary photography workshops around the world. He is a founder member of the MAPS agency. He is also the author of several books among which Aveuglément and Le mur et la peur published in the Photo Poche series by Actes Sud, Aujourd’hui c’est demain by Delpire and Voodoo by Lannoo. His last book En bas la ville, about Port au Prince (with texts by Laurent Gaudé), was published by Le bec en l’air in 2017.

After graduating in graphic design in Spain and Brussels, Chiqui Garcia is now working as freelance graphic designer in Brussels. In parallel with her work in graphic design, Chiqui has always been interested in social issues and questions related to socio-professional training. She works with Gaël Turine on the workshops in Haïti and made the layout of the book En bas la ville.